Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/David Taylor (Photographer)

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The result was Delete. The subect's photos are in use, but sufficient sources about him have not been found to meet WP:BIO. If they are found, then the article can be recreated. Ty 05:50, 13 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

David Taylor (Photographer)[edit]

Autobiographical article by a Sydney fashion photographer; COI issues, and lack of notability. I put a db-person tag on a first version of the article; he removed it and added some detail including one link to a Sydney Morning Herald article. I looked to see if I could find more: googling "David Taylor Photographer" produces at least three different British ones; narrowing it to "David Taylor Photographer Sydney" we are down to this article, a photographers' site called ftvstudio.com, and a couple of his images on photo.net. I don't think notability is established to the standard of WP:BIO. JohnCD (talk) 21:26, 6 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The problem has more to do with the name than the person, David Taylor is like John Smith and consequently difficult to search for. Also the larger part of his work has been through print media in Australia. A photographers search at http://www.wireimage.com/ or http://gettyimages.com shows to some degree the extent of his work. Which accordingly presents a problem for searching as most wireagency images are credited to the agency not the photographer.

Also

http://www.theimagedistillery.com/

http://thisisthefirstfloor.blogspot.com/2008/05/who-am-eyes-runway-presentation.html

http://www.honeyhartley.com/page/page/4606357.htm

http://k9pincushion.blogspot.com/2007/07/david-taylor.html

http://photo.net/shared/community-member?user_id=1718986— Tweekme (talk • contribs) has made few or no other edits outside this topic.

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Visual arts-related deletion discussions. -- Fabrictramp | talk to me 00:11, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - yes, he has taken photographs and they are on show, but has he been "the subject of published secondary source material" (i.e. about him, not by him) "which is reliable, intellectually independent, and independent of the subject." See WP:CREATIVE for the notability standard for creative professionals. JohnCD (talk) 08:52, 7 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Delete per nom. Johnbod (talk) 10:34, 8 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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